Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/247



Erse is the troke of a tonge / than the troke of a pere as hit appiereth by this fable / Of a hunter / whiche with his arowes hurted the wyld beetes / in uche wye that none caped fro hym / to the whiche betes a tygre fyers and hard ayd in this manere / Be not aferd / For I halle kepe yow well / And as the Tygre came in to the wode / the hunter was hyd within a buhe / the whiche whan he awe pae the tygre before the buhe / he hote at hym an arowe / and hytte hym on the thye / wherfore the tygre was gretely abahed And wepynge and ore yghynge ayd to the other beetes / I wote not from whens this cometh to me /   ¶ And whanne the foxe awe hym oo gretely abahed / al lawhynge ayd to hym / Ha a tygre / thow arte o myghty and o tronge / And thenne the tygre ayd to hym / My trengthe auaylled me not at that tyme / For none may kepe hym elf fro treaon And therfore ome ecrete is here / whiche I knewe not before   But notwithtandynge this I maye wel conceyue / that there is no wors arowe /